Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of English, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Thesis: No Net to Catch You, Will Yarbrough
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Thesis: The Backwoods Stories: A Saga of Fear and Wonder, James McClendon Adams
Thesis: Sub/Mission, Abigail Naomi Brunt
Thesis: Safe Passage to the End of Earth, Gregory Martin Chandler
Thesis: A Right-Hand Man: A Novel, Christopher Giofreda
Thesis: Sugar Acts, Amanda Raquel Gomez
Thesis: Are We All #NastyWomen? The Rhetoric of Feminist Hashtags and Respectability Politics, Kimberly Lynette Goode
Thesis: The Last Cherokee of Blue Ridge, Dexter Benjamin Gore
Thesis: Girlhood, Tarin Kovalik
Thesis: Your Favorite Place, Christina Marable
Thesis: Permanent Resident, Joshua McGarry
Thesis: The Quality of Mercy, Kerry McNamara
Dissertation: Constructing an Early Modern Queen: Posturing, Mimicry, and the Rhetoric of Authority, Megan K. Mize
Thesis: We Are the Bobcats, Jacquelyn Mohan
Thesis: Museum of Unforeseen Circumstances, Ethan Forrest Ross
Dissertation: An Examination of the Key Features of Salman Rushdie’s Historiographic Metafiction: A Possible Worlds Theory Approach, George Shamshayooadeh
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Thesis: Unconditional Positive Regard, Tyler Beckett
Dissertation: Reconceptualizing the Work of a Content Provider for an Online Audience: A Case Study for How Pedagogical Strategies Can Provide Models of Engagement for Producers of Entertainment, Diane Cooke
Thesis: Algorithm Controls: An Examination of Ethos, Agency, and Interfaces in the Fallout Series, Daniel Cox
Thesis: Intersexion, Cynthia Davis
Thesis: Healthy Living and Other Electives, Lamar Giles
Dissertation: BBC News: Defining Britishness in the Early Twenty-First Century, Christine Gilroy-Reynolds
Thesis: With Light, Emily Howell
Thesis: Mexican Bingo, Amanda Michelle Galvan Huynh
Thesis: Clubbie: Two Seasons with Baseball's Broken Dreamers, Gregory Scott Larson
Thesis: Dead Cooks, Aaron David Lawhon
Thesis: A Little Bit of a Breakdown, Margaret Libby
Thesis: New Elegies, Sarah McCall
Dissertation: Being Retained: Perspective of the Online First-Year Composition Student, Catrina Marie Mitchum
Thesis: The Otherworlds of Men, Aaron Morris
Dissertation: Women’s Entrance Into the Fire Department: A Theory of Collaboration and Crisis, Sarah Vee Moseley
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Dissertation: Aristotle's Ink: Tattooing a New Understanding of Invention in Collaborative Writing, Rachel L. Bragg
Thesis: EPortfolios, Google Drive, and Cognitive Process Theory, Sarah Elizabeth Carl
Thesis: Sex, Love, and Black Lives, Mack Curry IV
Thesis: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species [Short Stories], Leslie Samuels Entsminger
Dissertation: Communities in (Digital) Space: Creating Networks for Daily Living Through Pervasive Media, Jamie Lynn Henthorn
Thesis: Versus Los Angeles, Thomas Vincent Kelly
Thesis: Explaining Poetry to the Open Heart, Matthew Wayne Larrimore
Thesis: Misplaced Boys, Shori Matsumoto
Thesis: Well This Was Unexpected: Stories from My Life, Barbara Middlebrook
Dissertation: Leveraging Digital Communities of Practice: How Asynchronous Digital Collaboration Afforded a Complex Reading/Writing Dialogue for Secondary School Students, Susanne Lee Nobles
Dissertation: Collaborative Development of an Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Proposal: Negotiation through Boundary Objects, Laura Emond Paganucci
Dissertation: Innovation Adoption and Diffusion in Synchronous Tutoring Owls: A Cross-Contextual Case Study Using Diffusion of Innovations Theory, Cynthia Marie Pengilly
Thesis: Ulu Boyar, Caleb true
Thesis: In the Blooming Red, Elaine White
Thesis: The Secret Society of Fish-Gazers, Hannah Woodlan
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Multimodal Composing Across Disciplines: Examining Community College Professors’ Perceptions of Twenty-First Century Literacy Practices, Elizabeth Bensen
Dissertation: Community, Identity, and Transition: Student Veterans and Academic Writing at the Two-Year College, Mark Edward Blaauw-Hara
Dissertation: Embodied Literate Practices of Freshman Women Students: A Phenomenology of Students in First-Year Composition, Carmen Lynn Christopher
Dissertation: Governing Bodies: Caster Semenya and the Rhetorical Management of Sex and Gender Ambiguity in Professional Athletics, Samuel Robert Evans
Dissertation: Identities and Interactions in a Transcultural Online Collaboration Project, Zsuzsanna Bacsa Palmer
Dissertation: Pedagogy at Play: Gamification and Gameful Design in the 21st-Century Writing Classroom, Danielle Roney Roach
Dissertation: Creating Memories: Writing and Designing More Memorable Documents, James Eric Sentell
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dissertation: Narrative Space and Serialized Forms: Story-Spaces for the Mass Market in Victorian Print and Contemporary Television, Laura Daniel Buchholz
Dissertation: "That Doesn't Sound Like Me:" Student Perceptions of Semiotic Resources in Written-Aural Remediation Practices, Jennifer Johnson Buckner
Dissertation: "Warning: This Is a Must Read": Participation and Disruption in Social Artifacts and Spaces, Angela M. Harrison Eng
Dissertation: Refusing a Spoiled Identity: How the Swinger Community Represents on the Web, Barbara Kreston
Dissertation: "Do You Bant?" William Banting and Bantingism: A Cultural History of a Victorian Anti-Fat Aesthetic, Jaime Michelle Miller
Dissertation: Stuck in the Last Ice Age: Tracing the Role of Document Design in the Teaching Materials of Writing Courses, Erin Duffy Pastore
Dissertation: Microblogging as a Facilitator of Online Community in Graduate Education, Vincent Anthony Rhodes
Dissertation: From Viva La Revolutión-ish to the Free Space: Toward a Theory of Guerrilla Rhetoric, Cheri Lemieux Spiegel
Dissertation: Death on Display: Understanding the Publicized Eulogies of African American Cultural Figures as an Empowering Rhetorical Discourse, Melody Shelton Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: The User Experience of Participation: Tracing the Intersection of Sociotechnical Design and Cultural Practice in Digital Ecosystems, David L. Jones
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: Sifting the Commonplace: Topoi and the Grounds for Argument in Classical and Modern Rhetoric, Daniel Verlo Cutshaw
Dissertation: Textualizing the Nation: The Sociopolitical Negotiation of Atatürk's Nutuk, and Visions of National Identity in Contemporary Turkey, Elif Guler
Dissertation: The Effects of Digital Technology on Basic Writing, Leslie Denise Norris
Thesis: Investigating the Prevalence of Use by Japanese Speakers of an Acceptable Alternative Articulation of the Phoneme /s/ to That Commonly Taught in ESL and EFL Classrooms, Greg Raver-Lampman
Dissertation: Facebook and Its Users: Using Grounded Theory to Understand Perceived Interactivity as a Constraint in the Rhetorical Situation, Katie Lee Retzinger Pruitt
Dissertation: Woman at the Top: Rhetoric, Politics, and Feminism in the Texts and Life of Annie Smith Peck, Hannah Scialdone-Kimberly
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Memory, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Quilts, J. Jane Amelon
Dissertation: Namaste: Pedagogical Methods for Designing Yoga & Art Experiences for/with Teen Participants, Tiffani Olivia Bryant
Thesis: Writing Program Design for ESL Writers, Kacie M. Kiser
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation: Questions of Transfer: Writers' Perspective on Familiar/Unfamiliar Writing tasks in a Capstone Writing Course, Heather G. Lettner-Rust
Dissertation: Genre, Database, and the Anatomy of the Digital Archive, Elizabeth J. Vincelette
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Thesis: Oppressed, Empowered, Compatriot Woman: RAWA's Online Construction of Gendered Ideographs, Heather L. Floyd
Thesis: Like as An Exemplifier: A Description of its Construction and the Relations It Can Mark, Helena L. Osborne
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Thesis: Through the Dark Woods, Letitia A. Montgomery-Rodgers
Thesis: Topics in Action Sources of Definiteness of Topic Noun Phrases in Thai Interactive Discourse, Prakaiwan Vajrabhaya
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Thesis: Institutionalizing Gender and Sexuality in a Call-In Radio Advice Program: A Characterization of Loveline, Meagan P. Storey
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Thesis: Caste, Desire, and the Representation of the Gendered Other in U. R. Ananthamurthy's “Samskara,” “Ghatashraddha,” and “Akkayya”, Krishna Manavalli
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Thesis: The Book of Changes, Nancy H. Jolemore
Thesis: An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Language Attitudes and Academic Performance in Northampton County, Virginia, Public Schools, Glenda L. Rose
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Thesis: Classical Montessori: A Study of the Classical Rhetorical Canons in Early Montessori Writing Instruction, Deborah E. O'Neil
Thesis: Hoarfrost, Mae Lynn Wallker
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Thesis: Hold as a Monosemic Verb, Amy D. Camp
Thesis: Names as Insults Among Middle School Students, Susan M. de Veer
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Thesis: Threats, Carol DĹynn West Bleyle
Thesis: A Literary Evaluation of Black Female Interaction in Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport
Thesis: Come Rain or Come Shine, Teresa E. (Terry) Perrel
Thesis: Computer Networks and the Teaching of English as a Second Language: How Networks Affect Second Language Acquisition, Kirstin J. Reed-Perez
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Thesis: The Complexities of Learning Prepositions: Spanish to English, Denise J. Simon Chiavarini
Thesis: Yellow Ribbons, D. Scott Drake
Thesis: Katharine's Dream, Karen Maceira
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Thesis: "A Terror and a Dream": Domestic Imagery in the Poetry of Anne Sexton, Frances S. Waters
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study of the Female Characterizations of To Have and Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh